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ANTHONY CULLEN
I'll never forget the day that I laid eyes on her. She was sitting outside a cafe on Broadway, sipping on her iced latte, with her nose buried in a history book.
I felt as if the air had been knocked out of me. She was so beautiful, so pure. Kate was my everything, my life...My wife.
We got married only six months after we met. There wasn't a doubt in my mind that I wanted to be next to her for the rest of my life.
I loved her, I loved her so much I scared myself.
Her betrayal, it cut me deep because she had me so fooled. She had me wrapped around her finger so tight that it almost cost me my life, all of our lives in fact.
I didn't want to believe it at first. I didn't think that my Kate was capable of hurting me in that way.
Kate betrayed me with my own enemy. All the time we were together, she was secretly seeing Liam. They were good, I had to give them that, she was good.
With a bodyguard and she still managed to slip away and sneak off and see him right under our noses.
My brother told me, he warned me, there was something not right about her, but I paid him no attention because he and Rosalie never liked Kate from the start, because she was an outsider. She wasn't the daughter of a made man or a connection, she had no Italian blood in her.
When Kate told me she was pregnant, I wasn't prepared, but I was happy, but that was a happiness that was short lived.
She was eight weeks pregnant, there was no way that kid was mine. When she got pregnant I had been in Spain doing some business for my father. I had been gone for over two months, nearly three. Her conception date, it didn't add up, I wasn't here.
Liam had been out for revenge for many years. He was older than my brother and I, he was thirty-five at the time. He wanted revenge for his father's death ten years prior.
My father and Liam's father had a contract deal and when Liam's father couldn't or wouldn't keep to his part, that is when things turned bloody.
Liam's father lost his life because he was greedy, he thought he could outsmart a Cullen and make off with millions. His father lost his life because he was stupid, but Liam didn't see it that way.
I don't know how he manipulated Kate. I don't know what he did or said to her, for her to betray me and I guess I never will, but that does not mean my heart doesn't break every time I think about her and what she had done.
It's been so long now since I've thought about her, but when I do, I don't see my beautiful wife. I see a dead body, I see blood, a liar, a traitor, that to this day still holds onto my cold heart.
"Hey," Detective Uley shouted, slamming his palms on the table by my head. "It's not nap time, Cullen, answer the fucking question."
"And what question was that detec…" I trailed off, unable to fight a yawn.
"What did you do with Isabella Swan?"
"Are we back at this again, detective? I told you before, I don't know shit about that girl," I said, leaning back in my chair and propping my feet up on the table.
Uley chuckled lightly. He stood up from his seat in front of me, tucking his hands into the pockets of his pants. He stood next to me, his head bending down to my level, an almost victorious smile played across his face.
"You sure about that, Cullen?" He almost sang the words. I kept my mouth shut as I watched that idiotic smile on his face grow larger. He gave me that look, you know telling me that he knew something I didn't. Little did he know, the joke was on him, on them all.
"We have a witness that places the girl in your apartment. Our witness also has a sample of the girl's DNA, also found in your apartment. So I am going to ask you one more time, Cullen, where is Isabella?" He spoke each word, sharp and clear as if I was a retard and couldn't understand.
You see the beauty of being us is that we were better than them. They thought they were in control, but they weren't. The only way their kind got to our kind these days was by sheer luck or sheer stupidity on our part. You only get caught if you want to get caught. My brother and I, we may share blood, but we are not our father. We don't put our trust in a so called friend. Right now, I'm not even sure I can trust my own father.
"Your witness, detective?" I laughed. Currently their witness was sitting in a basement under a bar. One thing about my brother, he does things fast. As soon as Emmett had received the call from Jacob, the order had already been given to collect Jasper and his bitch wife.
Yet another reason why these departments were pathetic, operated by complete morons. They let their so called witness go, they let their only credible witness walk out without so much as an offer of protective custody, and now because of that tiny fuck up they were going to end up at square one yet again, not that they had ever left it.
"Come on, Cullen, you've been caught. You fucked up, so you might as well tell me where she is," Uley said.
"Is my lawyer here yet? Or are you stupid fucks not letting her in?" I said calmly.
"Now why would you need a lawyer, Cullen, if you are as innocent as you claim to be?"
"Because you've had me here for over five hours running your mouth and yet you're still not charging me with anything which leads me to believe that, A: You get some sort of pleasure of of pissing me off; or, B: You have no fucking evidence as you claim to have and you are trying your best to get me to incriminate myself for a crime I didn't commit. So which one is it detective, A or B? I think B," I said.
"We have Isabella Swan's DNA, her hair was found on the bed sheets in your apartment, Cullen. I don't have to get you to confess to anything," he said, taking a step back when he heard the door open. My sister came in with the captain.
"Get up, we're leaving," Rosalie said.
"No he's not," Uley said.
"Yes, he is," Rosalie said, pulling on my arm.
"Sit your ass back down, Cullen. Captain, what's going on?" Uley asked.
"The sample isn't a match, Uley."
"What was it that you were saying earlier," I said, grinning like a damn fool in his face.
"Anthony, move it, now," my sister said.
"You stupid fucks," I spat in his face.
"Anthony, now," Rosalie yelled.
Rosalie could be worse than our mother. Sitting in the back seat of the car, she didn't waste any time smacking the shit out of me. She has a good arm on her, my head is still vibrating from the impact.
"You are going to tell me exactly what the hell is going on right now," she said.
"I've got nothing to tell you. I didn't do anything," I said.
"Really? Why do I have a hard time believing that. This is the second time they have dragged you in, in connection to that girl. Just tell me what you did, Anthony. I can't help you if you don't tell me the truth," she said.
I looked at Emmett in the rearview mirror. Emmett knew, he didn't say shit, but he knew that myself and my brother were connected to Isabella's disappearance.
"There is nothing to tell, Rosalie," I said, grinding my teeth together. "If it would have been me that took her, they would have found her body by now on Swan's doorstep. I didn't fucking take her."
She looked at me for a brief moment, sizing me up. She didn't believe me, I knew it.
"I don't believe you," she said. "I don't have time to deal with this. I have enough trouble working on dad's case, I can't be dealing with your crap as well. Whatever you did, fix it and make sure it doesn't come back to you anymore."
DINY
Emmett dropped Rosalie home before he and I made our way to the bar. Edward was already waiting for us there.
When I arrived, Alice was already a bloody mess. I eyed my brother, it wasn't like him to lose control in that way, ever.
"I didn't touch her, that was all him," he said, nodding his head in Jasper's direction.
"I'm sorry," Alice cried.
"Shut the fuck up," Jasper yelled, fighting against his restraints to get to her. Alice wasn't tied up. She crawled away to the furthest corner of the room covering herself.
"I trusted you," I said to Jasper. "And what do you do, you betrayed us."
"I can't believe she did this," he mumbled. "You stupid whore. Look at what the fuck you've done."
"You are all disgusting. You're all filthy pigs," Alice yelled.
"Someone please shut her up," my brother said, rubbing his eyes.
"Alice, shut up," Jasper said.
"Why? They are going to kill us anyways. They don't care that we have children, they don't care about anyone but themselves," she spat.
My brother stepped towards her, drawing out his gun as he came to a stop by her side. He crouched down to her level and put the barrel against her temple.
"You should have thought of your fucking children before you opened your mouth to the feds," Edward said, pulling the trigger.
Jasper faced the other way, with his eyes closed, he was crying.
"You," I said, nudging his shoulder. "How could you let this happen? How the fuck could you let her go to the fucking feds?" I yelled.
"I didn't know where she was going, I didn't know what she was doing. She dropped the kids off at her mother's last night and the next thing I know, we're down here." He looked back up at me, pleading with his eyes. He was a broken man. "You know I would never pull shit like this. For fuck sake, I'm involved in it as well."
"Yeah, but your wife didn't rat you out to the feds now did she," Emmett said behind me.
"Come on Anthony, you know me. Edward, please," Jasper begged, looking from me to my brother, to his wife's dead body.
"No," I said, pulling the trigger between his eyes.
"What a fucking mess," Emmett said.
My brother was having a strange moment. The way he was looking at Alice's body, for a brief moment I questioned his mental state.
"Don't get rid of her body. Put it in the freezer down the hall," he said.